POLYVINYLIDENECHLORIDE

Polyvinylidene chloride

Polyvinylidene chloride is a homopolymer of vinylidene chloride. Ralph Wiley accidentally discovered polyvinylidene chloride in 1933. He, then, was a college student who worked part-time at Dow Chemical lab as a dishwasher. While cleaning laboratory glassware, he came across a vial he could not scrub clean. Dow researchers made this material into a greasy, dark green film, first called "Eonite" and then "Saran".

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polyvinylidene chloride

Noun

  1. A polymer of vinylidene chloride (CH2=CCl2) used as a thin film to wrap and preserve foodstuffs etc.


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